The inspirational story of the 1992 Lithuanian National Basketball Team and their incredible journey from the clutches of Communism to the Summer Olympics in Barcelona. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606829/

Born and raised in Michigan, Ruta Sepetys is the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee. The nations of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia disappeared from maps in 1941 and did not reappear until 1990. As this is a story seldom told, Ruta wanted to give a voice to the hundreds of thousands of people who lost their lives during Stalin’s cleansing of the Baltic region.

Ruta lives with her family in Tennessee. Between Shades of Gray is her first novel. You can visit Ruta Sepetys at rutasepetys.com

Ozyora Vamp Zone, Eastern siberia. 1950s.

This convinct explained the meaning of this tatoo as follows:
‘The Russians, deceived by the Jews, began to believe in absurd communism and in 1940 they decided to export it to Lithuania. The firs thing they did was to start liquidating their ‘class enemies’, and sent away hundreds of thousands of citizens of the Baltic countries, which made absolutely everybody hate them. when the German forces arrived in 1941 many Lithuanians, including myself volunteered to seve with them’.

Argo – Discophonia
Label:Мелодия
Catalog#: C 60—15173-4
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: USSR
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop, Disco

Bass – Artūras Kuznecovas
Edited By – R. Jautakas, V. Kondrotas*
Guitar – Linas Pečiūra
Leader, Synthesizer [Vilnius-5, Electronic Organ] – Julius Vilnonis (tracks: A3)
Percussion – Arūnas Mikuckis
Synthesizer, Directed By, Written-By – Giedrius Kuprevičius (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B1, B2, B3)
Vocals – Gintaras Kizevičius (tracks: A1, A4, B1, B3)

Į Pakistaną emigravusi lietuvė gyveno O.bin Ladeno pašonėje

„Evening Telegraph“ fotografas Rowlandas Hobsonas nufotografavo lietuvį imigrantą Deivydą Jaiką (20 m.), kai šis bandė sustabdyti plėšikus, sprunkančius po parduotuvės „Harvey Daly Jewellers“ apiplėšimo.

Saratove pasirodė socialinė reklama su vyriškio portretu ir raginimu sumokėti įsiskolinimą už komunalines paslaugas. Plakate šalia nuotraukos užrašyta: „Gerbiamasis Michailai Lvovičiau, Saratovo Leninsko rajono daugiabučių namų savininkų bendrijų asociacija primygtinai prašo jūsų sumokėti 7554 rublių skolą.“